site.btaUPDATED Caretaker PM Glavchev: We Did Everything to Ensure Fair Elections, Everyone Needs Regular and Stable Government

"We have done everything that we had been tasked with to ensure fair elections," caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev told journalists here on Tuesday. 

Glavchev pointed out that he could not say what the chances are for the formation of a regular government. "I can't talk about chances, I am neither a sociologist nor a political scientist. I cannot predict what the processes will be, but I continue to hope that a regular and stable government will be formed. Everybody needs that," the caretaker Prime Minister said. 

Asked whether the 4% barrier for entering parliament should be increased, he said, "That is a matter for the next legislatures to decide. I have nothing to say. We are a caretaker Government, we are fulfilling our duties as laid down in the current legislation," he said.

It is the job of the MPs to decide whether there will be changes. Such changes require the necessary majority [in Parliament], he said. 

Asked whether Velichie's failure to enter the next Parliament would make it easier to form a regular cabinet, the caretaker PM said, "Apart from not being an analyst, political scientist and sociologist, I am not a fortune teller. I cannot say anything, I only express my hopes to have a regular and stable government." 

Asked whether it was possible that Velichie's 3.999% election result [very shy of the 4% threshold for entering the legislature] was the result of votes being counted unfairly, Glavchev pointed out, "Where were the votes not counted fairly? In the commissions? Most probably in the commissions, because we did everything to make the elections fair." 

Glavchev said he could not comment on whether there had been errors in the counting of votes. 

"There are ways to find out if it was a result of a mistake or not. Our job, and I say this with my hand on my heart, we have done. There is a report from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to that effect. It is public," Glavchev said.